Story from Reuters

Napoli fans are planning to raise cash to make a bid to buy Diego Maradona’s earring, which was confiscated by Italian authorities in September as part payment for his tax arrears.

The piece of jewelry, taken while Maradona was in Italy at a weightloss clinic, will be put up for auction next week with a starting price of around 4,000 euros ($5,780) expected.

“Let’s have a collection,” Napoli fans, who adore the Argentina coach after he inspired the club as a player to Serie A titles in 1987 and 1990, have written on a supporter website (www.tifosidelnapoli.it).

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USsoccer.com is running a “best of awards” in four different cattegories.

• Best Soccer Bar (I have the feeling that all the bars they have listed are the ones that were dumb enough to pay for the “Official US Soccer Bar” program though)

• Best Soccer Specialty Store

• Best Fan Photo

• Best Soccer Blog (I can think of one you should probably put for that)

The vote requires registration at US Soccer (it’s free and easy though)

http://www.ussoccer.com/Best-of-Awards/2009-Best-Of-Awards.aspx

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UPDATE: Week 1 Winner is Joseph Morris! Congratulations to Joseph. For everyone else that entered, you can re-enter each week starting on monday and be eligible to win!

UPDATE: Week 2 Winner is Mark Sheeran Congratulations to Mark. For everyone else that entered, you can re-enter each week starting on monday and be eligible to win!

We just launched a brand new contest with our friends over at Setanta Sports to give a FREE big four(Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool or Manchester United) every week in November.

HOW TO ENTER: Head over to http://www.setanta.com/us/jerseycontest and fill out the form. Then head over to Twitter(or Facebook) and retweet(or post) the link to this post, that’s it!

DETAILS: You can only enter once per week, must be over 18 years old and a resident of the United States. Winners will be announced here on 10Shirt.Net so check back often!

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WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Leslie Sprague of Houston, TX and Steve Wilson of Boston, MA, congratulations!

In celebration of The Damned United’s release tomorrow, Friday October 9th, 2009, we are giving away two full-sized movie posters!

How To Enter:
In order to enter yourself to win one of these bad boys follow us on twitter(@10_Shirt) and re-tweet this post’s link, or for those non-tweeter’s, become World Soccer Reader’s friend on Facebook and share a link to this post on your profile(and send us a comment or message letting us know!). We will be announcing the winners next Tuesday. Don’t forget to head out this weekend to see The Damned United in theater’s(we give it 5 out of 5!) near you, here’s the trailer:

RULES: Must be located in the United States.

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10 Shirt is organizing a nationwide show of soccer support in the United States for Friday October 9th, 2009 in build up to what will hopefully be a US qualification to next years World Cup in South Africa. The aim is get as many US based soccer fans to show their support by wearing their gear(shirt, hat, mug, scarf, anything!) on Friday, October 9th, 2009.

How can you get involved?
Participate:
Wear your shirts, scarves, hats, and any other gear you have to work or school. Show your support in any way, even by bringing your custom made Thierry Henry Gundam toy into work. Maybe you’ll find some previously unknown fellow fans of the beautiful game.

Spread The Word:
How can you help spread the word? Attend the event on Facebook and invite all your friends, Tweet and Reweet links to this post. Tell all your co-workers/classmates that follow the sport to get involved.

Giveaway:
10Shirt is giving away a custom painted 16GB iPod Touch to one lucky winner!(Winner will be announced October 12th, 2009) Click to Zoom in.
The more friends you invite on Facebook and the more tweets/retweets and pictures you send in, the higher chance you have of winning!

How To Enter:
We recently launched a 10Shirt shirt sightings series, this will spotlight pictures taken by our readers of people(friends/co-workers/strangers) they see wearing soccer gear. Submit your pictures via email(sightings@10shirt.net) or upload your pictures to our Flickr Shirt Sightings Group, with the date/location and shirt they’re wearing, and you could be featured on the site! Submitting pictures between now and October 12th, 2009(when the iPod Touch winner will be announced) will enter you into the contest for the iPod Touch, and get you a free 10Shirt sticker!

Sign Up:
Make sure to sign the GoUSABid.com petition below, to help show support for the US hosting either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.

Supporters of October 9th: (link to this post from your blog/website and a link to your site/blog/organization will be added to the post and the Facebook event page)
World Soccer Reader

Want to get your group/blog/organization involved? Contact us at info@10shirt.net

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